“there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 37 of 303
“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
“People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.”
“Consider the source...Don't be a fool by listening to a fool.”
“I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.”
“It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.”
“Not everyone coming to you with a problem wants a solution. They are attached to the attention it brings them.”
“Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.”
“Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.”
“We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow”
“There is always the danger in scientific work that some word or phrase will be used by different authors to express so many ideas and surmises that, unless redefined, it loses all real significance.”
“All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.”
“Before I speak, I have something important to say.”
“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.”
“One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.”
“It really don't matter what you're thinking about, as long as you're thinking about something.”
“A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.”
“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”
“When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.”
“Begin to listen to what you say. Don't say anything that you don't want to become true for you.”